Top Global Health Experts to Report Innovative Technologies in Pipeline That Will Change Health Conditions for the World's Poor

Fri. September 18, 2009; Posted: 10:00 AM

Sep 18, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- TGLLF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- New ideas, systems and technologies are emerging to solve numerous health challenges facing the world's poorest communities. Some of the foremost experts on global health will discuss these and the prospects for health breakthroughs in the developing world at a media briefing at the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Symposium at 2:30 pm on Monday, September 21. Experts include:

Dr. William H. Foege (moderator), Chairman of the Global Health Council and Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on the state of global health

Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 2006, on the challenges of delivering health care to the poor

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, on the technology necessary to tackle global health crises

Richard Greene, Director of the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), on the importance of new technology in USAID's work

Dr. Christopher Elias, President and CEO of PATH, a Seattle-based non-profit and the 2009 recipient of the Hilton Humanitarian Prize, on the newest ideas and technologies PATH has in the pipeline or in testing that can change the lives of the poor in the developing world (ie -- a hybrid refrigerator that PATH's lab calls the "Prius" of refrigerators)

     WHEN      Monday, September 21, from 2:30-4:00 pm
               There will be a Q&A session at the end of the panel discussion
               and availability for one-on-one interviews.
     WHERE     South American, Room B, 2nd Floor
               Capital Hilton Hotel
               1001 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20036

SOURCE: Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

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